Ryan Weaver

A new paper with big news in the world of red carotenoid ornamentation: House Finches do not utilize CYP2J19/BDH1L to produce red feather pigments. Why is this big new?...(1/6) doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

@OroborosI Thanks for the fun and informative workshop! Looking forward to using the new O2K modules soon. 🤞

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the EBEC2024 Satellite Oroboros O2k-Workshop: Mito&Chlora High-Resolution Respirometry and PhotoBiology, IOC164. It was a pleasure to share our latest innovations and connect with such an engaged group. buff.ly/3WTSUkU #O2kWorkshop

I'm recruiting PhD students to work on mitochondrial bioenergetics. Check out my talk from #Evol2024 on HGT of an alternative mito pathway youtu.be/mdfk3JxLV4c?t=… We do other cool mito evolution and physiology, plz get in touch!

Congratulations Jonathan Wendel of @IowaStateU, newly inducted #NASmember! #NAS161 #plantbiology #genomics

@grahamallie1 @UnivOfKansas Congrats Allie!

I'm glad to announce that I will be a postdoc no more! Why, you ask? It's because I'll be starting my lab at the University of Kansas in the Molecular Biosciences Dept this Fall! @UnivOfKansas #NIHfunded Stay Tuned!

@wang_phil1 @BWHPsyResidency @CleClinicLCM Congratulations, Philip!

So thrilled to match at @BWHPsyResidency! Unbelievably lucky to have spent the past five years at @CleClinicLCM and am incredibly grateful to friends and mentors I’ve made here!

An ISU research team has created organoids from turtle livers, the 1st-ever turtle organoids. The discovery will speed up turtle genetic research, including traits with potential human benefit such as resistance to oxygen deprivation. #IowaStateInnovates 📰go.iastate.edu/RYFZY5

Anytime I talk about extreme rate variation in plant mtDNA evolution, people ask why some lineages evolve fast. @KendraZwonitzer took that personally. Her paper out today @PNAS offers some evidence for one possibility. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Opening for Professor & Department Chair in Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology @eeob_isu @IowaStateU. Be part of a highly-collaborative, resource-rich environment! Please spread the word. #academicjobs #FacultyJob #ecologyjob isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IowaStat…

Our great work led by the Schumer lab is finally out @Nature This is some of the best evidence out there that mitonuclear interactions can lead to speciation. Article: doi.org/10.1038/s41586… Summary: tinyurl.com/hamu6n6n

Hi #SICB2024, I'm recruiting graduate students interested in evolutionary bioenergetics. Check out my talk on chytrid fungus mitochondria Fri, 8:45 , rm 604. Visit ryanjweaver.com to learn about projects ready for students to pickup on mitonculear evol and mito physiology

Check out this new publication by @ryanjweaver_ and I about the amazing enzyme alternative oxidase! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… A wonderful collaborative research and writing experience!

Sex determination is incredibly varied! In this new paper led by @Texas_Mussels, we find a small RNA encoded in the mtDNA of male (not female) bivalves may interact with nuclear genes to determine sex. More work is needed, but weird nonetheless... tinyurl.com/48r55pt7

@jsharbro @peterdfields @JosephJalinsky @KE_McElroy @chemay52 @mneiman @johnlogsdon Congrats to all. It's cool to see Nmt genes showing resistance to gene flow

@WildlifeMcCoy @Ecol_Evol @ajshultz622 @Dionne_Group @sonkelab Very cool!

Why do yellow pigments look redder when there's more pigment or a longer pathlength? To explain why, we discuss the carotenoid redshift & beautiful tanager birds in @Ecol_Evol! New paper with @ajshultz622, Jackie Dall, @Dionne_Group, & @sonkelab onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

We also highlight cases of sequence contaminants that falsely attribute AOX sequences to taxa that do not have them. But the thing I’m most jazzed about is putative repeated independent horizontal gene transfer of AOX into metazoan genomes from fungi and protists.

Why such a low-tech approach? 1stbecause it works. 2nd because we hope to increase AOX awareness of researchers who might be put off by model-based tools (which we also used) to help them determine if their critter of interest has AOX.

.@AEMcDonaldWLU and I have a new paper out reviewing the wide taxonomic distribution of an understudied aspect of mitochondrial physiology, the alternative oxidase AOX. We update, clarify, and correct the record of which taxa encode AOX in their genomes. authors.elsevier.com/c/1hbVJ_7h4UMIH